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The Nexus of Privacy

The Nexus of Privacy
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· Föderation EN Fr 10.01.2025 21:23:00

@caseynewton reports that Meta' is killing their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs

platformer.news/meta-kills-dei

"As a result, the company said it would:

  • Eliminate its DEI team. Maxine Williams, the company's chief diversity officer, will take on a new role "focused on accessibility and engagement."

  • Ending use of the diverse slate approach to hiring, which required managers to source candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

  • Ending efforts to hire underrepresented minorities as vendors and suppliers.

  • Instead of equity and inclusion programs, we will build programs that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background." (?????)"

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The Nexus of Privacy

The Nexus of Privacy
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Föderation EN Fr 10.01.2025 21:24:59

And @jasonkoebler reports that Meta is deleting trans and nonbinary Messenger themes

404media.co/meta-deletes-trans

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The Nexus of Privacy

The Nexus of Privacy
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Föderation EN Di 14.01.2025 23:13:35

Members of Meta's Civil Rights Advisory Group have "grave concerns" with their recent content policy changes. No, ya think?

cdt.org/insights/letter-meta-c

"Meta’s failure to engage even its own advisory group of external civil rights experts shows a cynical disregard for its diverse user base and calls into question Meta’s commitment to the free speech principles to which it claims to want to “return.”

A bad process makes bad policy. In your announcement, you touted Meta’s commitment to free expression, but the changes will significantly harm free speech."

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The Nexus of Privacy

The Nexus of Privacy
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Föderation EN Fr 31.01.2025 02:11:09

Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Turn Meta [Back] into a Pogrom Machine -

An excellent post by @emptywheel , including this

"Most people — including Elizabeth Warren, in the WSJ story — are focusing on how this is effectively a bribe, a $22 million donation (on top of the earlier $1 million one) trading for regulatory favors. It is. Trump continues to engage in unprecedented corruption in plain sight.

But it is more than that. The concession of the settlement implies that Facebook should not have banned Trump for using their platform to incite an insurrection, though it admits no wrong-doing.This is not just about eliciting a bribe for regulatory favors. It is not just about winning an argument about actions taken four years ago to halt an insurrection in process.

The entire lawsuit is about an ongoing chilling effect. And Zuck’s capitulation is a capitulation to that chill, a soft commitment that the next time Trump uses social media to launch his mob against vulnerable targets like trans people or legal Haitian immigrants, against co-equal branches of government in Congress or the courts, or against his select targets like Milley, Meta will do nothing to slow the mob."

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Alexandradal

Alexandradal
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Föderation EN Fr 31.01.2025 04:30:30

@thenexusofprivacy @emptywheel

Yes. But in my view, it misses a part of the picture. It is US-centered. Meta is influent worldwide. Cambridge Analytica was the discovery, in a London office, of the mind mastering of a Barbados FB user. It discovered the power to oust leaders, quell revolutions, tip the scales for a dictator. Everyone speaks about Big Tech submission to Trump, it is the other way round, imo. Big Tech oligarchs, drunk on their power, have decided to reshape humankind's fate.

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